Thaxton Baptist Church
Thaxton Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Thaxton, MS 38871. It is one of 12 churches in Thaxton.
Thaxton, MS, 38871Thaxton Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,483 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Mississippi — 71,417 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Thaxton Baptist Church
It takes 3.5 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of adults live with obesity, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Social Isolation: 35.2%
- Obesity: 38.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.1%
- Child Poverty: 24.1% (10.6–37.6%)
- Food Insecurity: 18.0%
- Poverty Rate: 16.4% (9.9–22.9%)
- Diabetes: 13.4%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 1 census tracts near this church.
Thaxton town is served by 2 churches — about one congregation for every 2,707 residents.
Churches near Thaxton Baptist Church
- Thaxton United Methodist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hayseed Cowboy Church — 1.4 mi away
- Crossroads Church — 2.1 mi away
- Mount Peniel Church — 2.2 mi away
- Bellvue Church — 2.9 mi away
- Bluff Springs Church — 2.9 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Sand Spring Church — 3 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Hurricane Church — 3 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Turnpike Church — 3.1 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Ridge Chapel — 4.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Buchannan Missionary Baptist Church — 4.6 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
- Lafayette Springs Primitive Baptist Church — 4.9 mi away in Oxford, MS
- Toccopola Baptist Church — 5 mi away in Toccopola, MS
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 6.1 mi away in Oxford, MS
- Springville Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 6.7 mi away in Pontotoc, MS
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